Posted by David Bernstein:
The ABA Wasn't Always Liberal:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_09_30-2007_10_06.shtml#1191333956
You probably knew that already, but I still found this quote from the
ABA president's inaugural address in 1924 of interest:
In these days of so-called progressivism and advanced political
economy, we find men in every community who jeer at that
[Constitutional] Convention and belittle its work. They say . . .
that the Constitution might have filled the need then, but is
obsolete now. . . . These ignorant, unpatriotic unthinking
disciples of communistic thought would tear down where they could
not build. . . . They have never offered any constructive
substitute, as indeed they could not, for while the Constitution
may not be perfect, it at least has stood the test of nearly 150
years. . . . [T]he Lilliputians of experimental schemes must not
tear asunder what wise men have joined together.
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